The root cause of mass shootings is an intensely partisan debate, with one side blaming mental health and the others blaming guns. Researchers hope that the findings in the study could usher in a more holistic and evidence-based […]
Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
Kirsten Berg and Moiz Syed, - ProPublica
Stephan: Almost every day I see some disgusting social policy or judgment from criminal Trump and his Congressional cult, always to a negative effect on some minority group. Sexually insecure men, like Trump and his cult seem to have a particularly hard time with the LGBTQ community, and do everything in their power to make their lives miserable. Here are the facts.
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When he campaigned for president, Donald Trump posed with the rainbow flag and became the first GOP nominee to mention LGBTQ citizens in his convention speech. In his first month as president, he signed an executive order stating he was “determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community.”
Yet since taking office, Trump’s administration has acted to dismantle federal protections and resources for LGBTQ Americans, particularly those gained under President Barack Obama.
In a reversal from the Obama administration, the Trump administration has repeatedly taken the position that laws and regulations that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex do not cover a person discriminated against for being gay or transgender. The administration has also pushed for religious exemptions to civil rights laws, which experts say will make it easier to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals. The administration has taken particular aim at transgender people, barring them from joining the military.
The White House did not respond […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
KASHMIRA GANDER, - Newsweek
Stephan: I find the hysteria over sexuality in the United States quite sad, and very harmful. Start with this, your eternal self, soul in religious terms, has no gender. The reincarnation research shows that one life may be as a male, another as a female. Discarnate personalities don't have penises or vaginas.
Thus, I am glad to see some actual research, as opposed to the usual religious and moral nonsense, on the life and health, both mental and physical, of transgender children.
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Trans children who live as the gender they identify with act and develop similarly to their cisgender counterparts, according to a new study.
In the largest ever study of transgender children, scientists recruited 317 3 to 12-year-old transgender children, 189 of their siblings, and 316 cisgender kids who acted as controls. The transgender participants had socially transitioned, meaning they were living as the gender they identify with rather than what they were assigned at birth. For instance, a child with a penis assigned a boy at birth who has come out as and is living as a girl.
To conduct the study, the researchers met families across North America, study co-author Selin Gülgöz, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, told Newsweek. They spoke to children and parents about the former’s gender identity. That included showing kids toys and asking which ones they preferred, and quizzing them on how similar they felt to boys or girls. The cisgender control group followed the same steps.
“The most surprising finding is, […]
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